, 1887-01-22
AUSTRTA NJ RUSSIA.

udtly mOlO dIbI uAlHSlJ oppoAChC oh"U 'hO
differences which have arisen between Aus
tria and Russia, with respect to a solution
of the Eastern problem, are rapidly aSSum-
ing a hostile character which threatens to
bring those Powers into violent collision.
The rumOurs of active war preparations on
either side, which have lately been disSem-
mated throughout Europe with ever-increas-
ing profus!On and persistence, are now
receiving confirmation from trustworthy
sources. A few days g our Vienna cor
respondent informed us that from forty to
fifty regiments of Russian cavalry were
already massed upon the Galician frontier,
supported by imposing forces of infantry,
forming an uninterrupted chain of troops,
each link of which consists of from one to
three battalions. A huge entrenched camp
is being rapidly constructed at Miendzi.
bOrz, where is concentrated at present the
bulk Of the field artillery attached to that
portion OF the Russian frontier army the
headquarters of which is stationed at Kis-
chenetf. Now we learn that the Russian
provinces AUDITING upon Roumanid as we'll
as upOn Austrian Poland are crowded with
regular troops, and that the fOrcible Occu-
patton of the Dacian kingdom ''by sur
priSe"-that is to say, without the preIlml-
nary fOrmality of a declaration OF war be-
ing gone through by the aggreSSOr-lS CON
templated by the MuScOvite military au-
thOrities, prior to the invasion of Eastern
Galicia, the existing defenCeS of which are
regarded as insignificant. On the other
hand, it is stated that eminent Austrian
generals have counselled the Vienna War
Office to echelOn two full army corps on
the Trans lvanian frontier, whence they
could at a few hours notice be despatched
through the several Carpathian passes into
the plains Of Wallachia in time to safe
guard .ROumania against the projected
Russian "c0up de main" The position of
Carol LIS kingdom is indeed critical, for
fifty thousand Russian troops of all arms,
occupying ground between KiScheneff and
REM, menace her MOldavian frontier, and
are to be speedily reinforced by other two
divisions which have received marching
orders for Bessarabia. Every Russian
vessel in the Black Sea available for mill
tary tranSpOrt--pasSengers and cargo stea-
mers as well as men Of-war-haS been
summoned to Odessa, SebastopOl, NicO-
laietf, and Kertch. According to private
intelligence received in Vienna from Kieff,
Il force of three hundred thousand men is
shortly to be concentrated in and about
the Latter city, the h~OuSe-owmers of which
nave been officially appraised that they
must make arrangements for billeting the
Imperial troops at the rate Of from twenty
to forty men per dwelling, Meanwhile,
Prince Nicholas PetrOvich, the ruler of the
Black Mountain, has already called to
arms all the able bodied warriors Of his
p~rincipafity, some thirty-fve thousand in
number, and large cOnsignments Of grain
are now being conveyed by Russian steam
ers from Odessa to Montenegro. AS the
Cztrnag0ranS are at present on the best
possible terms with their old enemy, the
Turk, these war preparations can ONLY
have for their object a hostile movement
against Austria, to be effected whenever
st. Petersburg may give the signal to
Cettinje. In tn" meanwhile they increase
the difficulties Ofthe Dual Realms situation
by stimulating the spirit of revolt in the
''protected" provinces of Bosnia and the
Herzegovina. All these disquieting an
nOuncements from her eastern and south
eastern frontiers have at length given the
alarm TO Austria Hungary, and we are
assured that painful anxiety prevails in
The official circles of Vienna and PeSth.
1t is, moreover, announced. by leading
Austrian journals hat the Imperial Gov.
prnment has at length-somewhat late in
the day, we should imagine-resolved to
construct forthwith a strategical railway
from Tarnobrzeg to Dembica, in Eastern
Galicia.
The possibility of a conflict between the
two double-headed Eagles being 10 all ap.
pearances just now the foremost of the